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This book uses attention as a prism through which to interrogate the literary text. It starts from analyses of the changes that the mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject, submitting him/her to the tyranny of a new attention economy. My point is that the contemporary novel and memoir resist such influences and evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an "ecology of attention" (Citton) based on poetic options whose pragmatic effect is to develop an ethics of the particularist type. To do this, I draw on critical and theoretical literature hailing from various fields: psychology, but also more prominently phenomenology, political philosophy, and analytical philosophy (essentially Ordinary Language Philosophy), alongside the ethics of care and vulnerability. By using a selection of fictional and non-fictional narratives, I address such issues as social invisibilities, climate change, AI and cognitive disability and end up drafting a poetics of attention.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Attention Economy
A Relatively Recent Category
An Ethical Apparatus
Attention to the Ordinary
Turning towards Literature
Chapter 1: Social Invisibilities
Refugee Tales
Showing
Ghosting
Caring
Raging
Exploring the Closet
Visibilities
Shifting Perceptions
Ending with a Whimper
Wandering with Intent
Investigating the Ordinary
What Matters
Chapter 2: Embedded Visibilities
Seeing the Land
Observing What Is Lost
The Anti-Pastoral
Relationalities
Inventorying
On the Same Spectrum
Collecting the Mundane
Perceptual Realism
Consideration(s)
Discordant Scales
Echoes and Portents
Acknowledging the Anthropocene
Inescapable Entanglements
Chapter 3: Of (Wo)men and Machines
The Time Will Come...
A Time Out of Joint
Machines That Mimic Minds?
Quandaries
Beyond Exceptionalism?
Artificial Perception
1. An Unwonted Focus
2. AI Vulnerability
3. Machine Vigilance
Chapter 4: Disabled Brains
Linguistic Impairment
Varying Attentional Tides
Perceptual Immediacy
An "Ethics from Down Under"
Autobiography and Cognitive Disability
Doubles
Oscillations
Relationality über alles
Conclusion
References
Index
